
Marshal Matt Dillon (then-newcomer James Arness) tries to prevent lawlessness from overtaking Dodge City, Kan. Helping to keep him grounded are saloon proprietor Miss Kitty Russell and Doc Adams. The television series grew out of the long-running radio serial of the same name, although for a short time they were both on the airwaves.

A local farmer joins a posse and is criticized and punished for shooting an outlaw in the back.

Bitter townspeople don't want an elderly gunfighter buried next to his wife in their cemetery.

Matt takes an orphaned girl to live with her aunt, only to discover she is not welcome.

Festus is attacked on his way to deliver money to a young woman who has been suddenly cut free from the confines of her sheltered life by the death of her father.